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Release Notes:
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-fetchmail-2.4 (Sat Dec 21 02:37:58 EST 1996)
+fetchmail-2.4 (Sat Dec 21 05:24:44 EST 1996)
+
+Note: a preliminary version of 2.4 was withdrawn after four hours of
+exposure due to horrible lossage apparently triggered by a bug in the
+Linux standard IO library. See the comment in socket.c.
features --
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* Restored compile-time portability to Solaris.
-* Force line-buffering on socket streams (Linux apparently defaults to this).
- This may fix some hang problems reported under Solaris.
+* Initial 2.4 said: "Force line-buffering on socket streams (Linux apparently
+ defaults to this). This may fix some hang problems reported under Solaris."
+ Unfortunately this "fix" triggers horrible lossage on long messages and had
+ to be removed.
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